200,000 people have signed a petition to have Logan Paul kicked off YouTube after controversy over his filming of a dead body in Japan's 'Suicide Forest'

Logan Paul is at the center of controversy.
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An online petition is gathering signatures to get Logan Paul's YouTube channel off of the video upload site.

It has more than 200,000 signatures.

Paul was met with backlash after uploading a video which featured the body of a man who had hanged himself.

An online petition is calling for YouTube to remove Logan Paul from its site following his most recent video upload that showed him and his friends discovering a dead body in what is known as the "suicide forest" in Japan.

"Logan Paul has gotten away with a lot of stuff. He took it way to [sic] far this time," the Change.org petition started by a person in Columbus, Ohio says.

The petition created on Monday describes how the 22-year-old YouTube vlogger posted the video of his visit to Japan, which included his trip to Aokigahara and the discovery of a body of a person who had hanged himself. Paul blurred the face out in his footage and uploaded the video with the title, "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest."

"It's not about YOU, Logan Paul," the petition continues. "A man who had family and friends chose to end his life, and you chose to share his death to your millions of followers without thinking about how his family/friends felt? It's disgusting and shouldn't be tolerated."